Ask a 'Merican! / Ask a Brit / Ask a (insert other nationality here) — Page 2

When I hear this - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-cAnFbEXY0&feature=plcp

It makes me think of this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wR1MVdDmUA

iirc Sluggo is more coherent than such. I know peeps from 005's corner of the world have a wicked accent. When they say John it sounds like Khaaaaaan!!!

re: Razor blades - I can't confirm without a reference point. 

What's this about Dingoes?

Dingoes are one of the native animals you really have to be in the outback to see. They are quite unremarkable really, and look a lot more like a domestic dog than most wild dogs. They don't seem dangerous at all, but even if you take a pup before its eyes open, it will never truly be tame.

Lindy Chamberlain proved to be innocent after being convicted of the murder of her daughter Azaria, and her claim that a dingo ate her baby is most likely true. I was fascinated with the case at the time, and equally fascinated by Meryl Streep's performance in Evil Angels; the only authentic Aussie accent I have heard performed by a non-Australian.

Actually they all start with Klondike.

doubleKO said:

 

I was fascinated with the case at the time, and equally fascinated by Meryl Streep's performance in Evil Angels; the only authentic Aussie accent I have heard performed by a non-Australian.

 

The film went by different titles:

So Brits, when British actors do American accents, do they sound American to you? 

Sometimes.

They seem to be getting a bit better.

That awful Daleks In Manhattan episode of Doctor Who had some terrible travesty of a New Jersey accent that anyone with ears could tell was fake.

Still it was better than Peter Purves' American accent in the same show or any of the characters in The Gunfighters.

Hearing Jamie Bamber speak in his native RP is a bit odd.

David Morrisey just reminds me of Elvis the Spider in The Walking Dead.

I thought Idris Elba was American...till I saw him in Luther.

Charlie Hunnam in SOA, sounds good to me....what do you guys think of the Brits acting American?

J

Innsmouthians, how is it you're able to procreate with Deep Ones? Being an aquatic species of a blatantly amphibious extraction, surely their genes must be incompatible with yours.

Jaitea said:

I thought Idris Elba was American...till I saw him in Luther.

Charlie Hunnam in SOA, sounds good to me....what do you guys think of the Brits acting American?

 

Idris Elba is an Asgardian.

It seems to me some Aussies are better at being American men than we are... Mel Gibson, Hugh Jackman, Russel Crowe. 

Bingowings said:

That awful Daleks In Manhattan episode of Doctor Who had some terrible travesty of a New Jersey accent that anyone with ears could tell was fake.

Oh the pain! Dalek Sec had the best Dalek voice and they swapped him out for the worst actor in the whole NuWho.

TheBoost said:

It seems to me some Aussies are better at being American men than we are... Mel Gibson, Hugh Jackman, Russel Crowe. 

Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce have done believable (to me) American accents. The actor that plays Jason Stackhouse in True Blood and several Aussie tv actresses have fooled me convincingly. Hugh Jackman seemed pretty close as Wolverine (although the character is supposed to be Canadian).

Others seem passable like Hugo Weaving, and then you've got Eric Bana; who sounds like an Aussie to me no matter how hard he tries. It seems like Mel Gibson can only do his real accent which is stuck somewhere between American and Australian.

Simon Baker?

TheBoost said:

So Brits, when British actors do American accents, do they sound American to you? 

 

Bingowings said:

Sometimes.

They seem to be getting a bit better.

That awful Daleks In Manhattan episode of Doctor Who had some terrible travesty of a New Jersey accent that anyone with ears could tell was fake.

...

David Morrisey just reminds me of Elvis the Spider in The Walking Dead.

 

Haha, that is one of the things I love about Doctor Who, all the fake American accents. It says a lot about how much many Americans actually consider and pay attention to different accents when you can sit around watching with some friends and make a comment about how bad an American accent is and have them all look at you and say, "What do you mean? ... ... ... OH! Yeah, huh, I guess that probably is a little British kid or something, isn't it? Accent sounds fine to me, hadn't really thought anything of it." What?!

David Morrisey's Elvis impersonation is so ANNOYING. Kills the character for me.

Tyrphanax said:

Christian Bale?

Christian Bale has spent his whole life doing a fake British accent. That's the type of sacrifice he's willing to do to convince us that he does a great American accent. The truth is his real name is Christopher Baleberg, and he's from Baltimore, but he lives the trick.